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Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur

by Anuradha Chaturvedi

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

With chapters on Taj Mahal, Amber Fort Palace, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Red Fort and dozens of other highlights for the traveler, this compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and its environs features 900 color photographs, maps and site plans. (IDA151, $25.00)

India

by Stanley Wolpert

• HISTORY
• 2009
• PAPER
• 281 PAGES

Wolpert's reflections on India -- its religion and philosophy, its art, culture and politics -- make for a wonderfully literate, succinct primer. (IDA04, $26.95)

Mughal India, Splendours of the Peacock Throne

by Valerie Berinstain | Paul Bahn

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 159 PAGES

This illustrated pocket guide presents the history, culture and splendor of the Mughal court and its celebrated architecture in hundreds of archival photographs and drawings. (IDA50, $15.95)

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

by William Dalrymple

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2003
• PAPER
• 350 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Dalrymple infectiously interweaves his own experiences over a year in Delhi with the art, architecture, history and literature of the city. (IDA06, $16.00)

India Adventure Map

by National Geographic Society

• 2011
• MAP

The most detailed shaded relief map (at a scale of 1:2,100,000) of India available. (IDA18, $12.95)

 

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Delhi, Jaipur, Agra Map

by Globetrotter

• 2009
• MAP
• CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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Covering Northern India and the neighboring Himalayas, this double-sided map also features detailed city plans, site diagrams and an index. (IDA566, $8.95)

Culture Smart! India

by Becky Stephen

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated guide to both social and business customs in India. (IDA298, $9.95)

Footprint Rajasthan Handbook

by Matt Barrett

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

This wonderfully informative guide in the practical Footprint series includes background information on the history, attractions and culture of Rajasthan. (IDA267, $24.95)

Lonely Planet India Phrasebook

by Omkar Koul

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2008
• PAPER
• 398 PAGES

A handy palm-sized guide. (IDA538, $10.99)

Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra

by Abigail Hole

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 388 PAGES

A practical guide to Rajasthan, featuring 36 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (IDA238, $24.99)

Love Delhi

by Fiona Caulfield

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• BOXED
• 166 PAGES

Packaged in very fashionable locally woven cloth, this beautifully made, discerning guide captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. A labor of love by the Bangalore-based Fiona Caulfield and friends. Third edition. (IDA403, $50.00)

Love Jaipur, Rajasthan

by Fiona Caulfield

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• BOXED
• 168 PAGES

The exuberant Caulfield includes her favorite palaces and places, experiences, get-aways, markets, shops and must-sees in this rather remarkable, carefully curated hand-crafted guide. With sections on Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Agra and Rajasthan. 2nd Edition. (IDA590, $45.00)

A Traveller's History of India

by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

A condensed introduction to the themes and events that have shaped India from prehistory to Rajiv Gandhi's rule. (IDA57, $14.95)

In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India

by Edward Luce

• HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 346 PAGES

Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this portrait of a nation in transition. (IDA349, $16.95)

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India

by Elisabeth Bumiller

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1991
• PAPER
• 220 PAGES

A wonderfully written and fascinating portrayal of Indian women from Bollywood stars to Indira Gandhi to prostitutes. It's an insightful portrait of the country as seen through the eyes of its women. (IDA37, $14.95)

Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

by Diana L. Eck

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 115 PAGES

Tremendously useful for the traveler, this rigorous guide explains the significance and meaning of Hindu temples, festivals and ritual. Darsan, which translates as "seeing", reveals religious expression in India. (IDA75, $25.00)

Hindu Art and Architecture

by George Michell

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

An excellent survey of Hindu art and architecture, explaining the meaning and construction of principal images and buildings, as well as the development of Hinduism and the corpus of myths that have influenced its artistic tradition. (IDA147, $19.95)

Taj Mahal

by M.C. Joshi | Jean-Louis Nou | Amina Okada

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1993
• HARD COVER
• 231 PAGES

This lavish portrait features 158 full-color photographs (including four magnificent foldout panels) by the extraordinary Jean-Louis Nou. With grand exterior views, filigreed inscriptions and bejeweled floral mosaics. (IDA108, $75.00)

Taj Mahal

by Giles Tillotson | Mary Beard

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 190 PAGES

An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture." (IDA528, $14.95)

Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire

by Diana Preston | Michael Preston

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 317 PAGES

A vivid narrative history of the creation of the Taj Mahal, a memorial created by Moghul emperor Shah Jahan for his beloved wife. (IDA340, $16.95)

Dreaming in Hindi, Coming Awake in Another Language

by Katherine Russell Rich

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2010
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• NEW

Rich skewers the hilarity and challenges of taking on not just a new language but also a new culture in this spirited tale of life in Udaipur. (IDA565, $14.95)

Ghandi, An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

by Mohandas K. Gandhi

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1993
• PAPER
• 528 PAGES

There is no substitute for reading Gandhi in his own simple, direct prose. A highly recommended glimpse into the personality and life of this remarkable figure. (IDA163, $16.00)

Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story

by John Shors

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 344 PAGES

Built to mourn the tragic death of the emperor's wife, the Taj Mahal is at the center of this murderous, fantastical and dazzling tale, told from the point of view of daughter Princess Jaharana. (IDA301, $15.00)

India, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Chandrahas Choudhury

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

Each of these 14 stories evokes place and landscape, providing an excellent introduction both to contemporary writers and to India's diverse cultures and history. (IDA598, $14.95)

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than Kipling's Great Game classic about a boy who travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Dalai Lama. (IDA65, $9.00)

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 533 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Crowned Best of the Booker in 2008, Rushdie's greatest novel is a madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations. (IDA12, $16.00)

Shadow Princess

by Indu Sundaresan

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Princess Jahanara's story, replete with sibling rivalries, unfulfilled love and her father's grief, is set against the construction of her mother's tomb, the Taj Mahal, in this third installment in the bestselling Taj Mahal trilogy. (IDA596, $15.00)

The Case of the Missing Servant

by Tarquin Hall

• MYSTERY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 310 PAGES

Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, India's Most Private Investigator Vish Puri cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers in Delhi in this first novel in the series by Tarquin Hall. (IDA606, $15.00)

The Romantics

by Pankaj Mishra

• LITERATURE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

The story of a Brahmin youth who travels to the holy city of Benares and falls in with a motley crew of westerners enamored of India. (IDA143, $16.00)

The White Tiger, A Novel

by Aravind Adiga

• LITERATURE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India. (IDA542, $16.00)

Camel

by Robert Irwin

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

Irwin traces the camel from its origins to its role in the development of Arabic society to the present -- including the plight of camel herders in Darfur and its endangered status in Mongolia and China -- in this illustrated, informed survey of the camel and its role in society and history. (BST149, $19.95)

Birds of India

by Richard Grimmett | Carol Inskipp | Tim Inskipp

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2012
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

Thoroughly revised, with 73 new plates and many others updated or repainted, the second edition of the masterful Birds of India now features all maps and text opposite the plates for quicker and easier reference. (FG43, $39.50)

Mammals of India

by Vivek Menon

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 200 PAGES
• OUT OF PRINT

A Princeton Field Guide edition of Menon's authoritative survey of 400 mammalian species from tropical lowlands to the Himalayas. With large, clear photographs, range maps and introductory chapters on the groups of mammals, conservation and protected areas. (IDA546, $35.00)

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